Simge Tunalı

Simge Tunali is a Turkish, Boston-based multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer. She works in a variety of mediums, combining them together to create visual ideas that reflect an ontological dialogue between the human and environmental experience. Tunali first studied Philosophy at Akdeniz University in Turkey before moving to the United States to study art. Her interest in philosophy, specifically existential ontology, has inspired her practice today. Studying in Massachusetts she attended Quincy College for Visual Arts then moved on to obtain her second BA with honors in Graphic Design from Bridgewater State University. Tunali’s diverse background has guided her to merge disciplines and materials in her current work. She approaches her art with a mixed media method, utilizing printmaking, painting, illustration, photography, animation, sculpture, and graphic art elements.


Tunali has exhibited work in both Turkey and the United States. Her work was shown at the Urban Life Photography Exhibition (2014) in New Acropolis, and in the 53rd Annual Art Exhibition at Bridgewater State University (2019), with her sculpture Destruction of Inauthenticity winning third place. She won first place at the 15th International Mediterran...

BA in Graphic Design, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA

AA in Fine Arts: Visual Arts, Quincy College, Quincy, MA

BA in Philosophy, Akdeniz University, Antalya, TR

2019 Love Comes In Different Shapes (Exhibition), Curator, with Save the Harbor, Boston

2019 Love Comes In Different Shapes (Installation), Curator, FOCCP, Boston

2018 53rd Annual Art Exhibition (Group), Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater

2014 Urban Life Photography Exhibition (Group), New Acropolis, Several Locations in Turkey